against the United States joining the United Nations's Law of the Sea treaty, pitting him squarely against the military brass that he used to command as former President George W. Bush's secretary of Defense.

Rumsfeld's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is especially relevant because he was former President Reagan's emissary against the treaty back in 1982, when international momentum was for it. Proponents of the treaty have been trotting out former Reagan officials  former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Deputy National Security Adviser John Negroponte  to argue that changes to the treaty would have met with Reagan's approval, but Rumsfeld's appearance throws a wrench in that strategy.

Critics say it would curtail the U.S. military's freedom of navigation while allowing a UN agency to directly tax U.S. oil-and-gas companies.

Rumsfeld wasn't available to comment.

The so-called United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was designed to codify navigation rights in international waters, he writes in his memoir, Known and Unknown. But it had grown into something considerably more ambitious, with a proviso that would put all natural resources found in the seabeds of international waters into the hands of what was ominously called the International Seabed Authority.

Reagan's attorney general, Edwin Meese, has also been leading the charge against ratification of the treaty.

"With the treaty again under consideration by the Senate, Meekswrote in the Los Angeles Times this week, it's important to note that Reagan's objections to it were anything but trivial.

Rumsfeld was invited to speak by committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), who has vowed to invite witnesses on all sides of the issue despite his personal support for the treaty. Rumsfeld will be testifying next Thursday afternoon along with Negroponte and John Bellinger, a former legal adviser to the State Department under Bush, who supported ratification.

Kerry's committee is also holding another hearing Thursday morning with current military officials, who argue for rapid ratification as China expands into the South China Sea, where the treaty recognizes the sovereignty of the Philippines, a U.S. ally, and other countries.

I can't imagine what military brass of ours would be in favor of this treaty. More mysterious is how they came to be brass in our navy? I assumed all of our military command positions were filled by tried and true patriots, unwilling to yield anything to the United Nations, especially anthing that would decrease and/or undermine their own bailiwicks.

I can't imagine what military brass of ours would be in favor of this treaty. More mysterious is how they came to be brass in our navy? I assumed all of our military command positions were filled by tried and true patriots, unwilling to yield anything to the United Nations, especially anthing that would decrease and/or undermine their own bailiwicks.

Top Military, Diplomatic Brass Urge Senate To Ratify Law Of The Sea Treaty

Top military Brass are selling out and the "Diplomatic Brass" aka the State Department, are always Globalist types who like to play kissy face with the UN and kiss from their diplomatic posts around the world.

I can't imagine what military brass of ours would be in favor of this treaty. More mysterious is how they came to be brass in our navy? I assumed all of our military command positions were filled by tried and true patriots, unwilling to yield anything to the United Nations, especially anthing that would decrease and/or undermine their own bailiwicks.

Pentagon brass is a cesspit of leftists. The Clintonoid generals Shalikashvili and Shinseki immediately come to mind. I think it was Shalikashvili who wanted to transition the Army away from tracked vehicles and toward tires like the European armies, hence the Striker APC. Shinseki was the liberal moron that implemented back berets for all Army personnel.

Then there's Maj. General Stephen Coughlin, who was buttbuddies with his islamist aide Hesham Islam.

Let's not forget the leftist imbecile Gen. George Casey, who said that while the Fort Hood massacre was a tragedy, "I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here."

Add to the list the kabal of lesbian admirals that ran inteference for the widely despised Adm. Holly Graf.

So you see, the military rank & file are patriots, but the Joint Chiefs and top-level Pentagon brass are not.

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